Balta1701

Dr. Hawking on the NHS when asked about the matter:

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 08:09 AM) Stop already. You're hurting my feelings. Too late.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 06:15 AM) I actually agree with that, too. Whatever we come up with, it has to be cleaner, equally or more efficient, and equally or less expensive than what we currently use or a majority of people (and foreign nations) will simply not make the change. A day will come where we look back and laugh at the power sources we currently use and laugh about it, but some serious breakthroughs in energy creation and storage have to happen first. 2 points in reply. 1; we actually already know how to do the energy creation and storage. Seriously, we do. We just don't have the infrastructure set up to make it work; you have to be able to take the electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed in a timely fashion, and our current system has been built on the assumption of coal fired power plants. If you put a serious price on carbon emissions, you could quite readily have this country done using coal within 10 years; everything could be renewables and natural gas. Second; the way to make these technologies more efficient? Start building them. With Baseload solar (concentrated solar thermal with storage), solar cells, wind power, etc., for all of the renewables basically, the big costs are the startup costs to design the programs, build the factories, build the windmills, build the plants, etc. The costs of running the plants after they're started up are much smaller than the initial costs. The only way to bring those costs down is to be able to spread the development costs out; once you've built the factory, everything else you build in that factory helps pay for it. The more of it you use, the more efficient it becomes.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 08:01 AM) Some of us don't get MLBN. Actually, I would guess a lot of people don't. Then call your cable provider.

QUOTE (Jim Spencer @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 07:48 PM) I agree. He struggled last year too when he was sent down. Last year he was injured most of the year.

For God's sake...ESPN isn't a monopoly. They were, for baseball, until this year. Go over to MLBTV. It's vastly more balanced. They give even games between last place teams a fair shake. They do it for a reason; because ESPN doesn't. They're literally trying to serve the rest of the fans. Stop complaining about it and change the channel.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 07:51 AM) Somebody's enjoying retirement. Good for him, though. He'll still look chiseled on his statue. Staring at the pitcher with the bat bouncing on his shoulder. Standing very, very tall.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 08:12 PM) You have three players in Dye, Thome, and Pods who are all free agents after this year. You'd have to be crazy to think they were going to be excited to see their at bats go down due to Rios coming aboard. Way to swing at ball 4 Alexei! Then they should have been hitting more.

We're overdue for a solo HR.

QUOTE (SoxFan101 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) What are you watching, Youkalis charged the mound which is an automatic suspension pretty much and he threw a batting helmet which is just a complete cheap shot. He will not only get suspended but of the 2 id imagine he is going to get a longer one. Im glad that Porcello threw Youkalis to the ground too, never cared much for the guy. Youkilis's will be shorter because Porcello's a pitcher.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 06:29 PM) There's a walk. And a tie game on a 2 run HR by JRoll. I'm going back to caring about the Tigers now.

And a tie game on a 2 run HR by JRoll.

There's a walk.

QUOTE (nastymasty21 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 06:22 PM) Perfect game thru 5 for Harden...JINx JInx Jinx There's a walk.

That was a hell of an angry charge by Youkilis though. Porcello used Youk's momentum against him, but that was some serious anger there.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 05:28 PM) 6 k's now for Freddy. Got BA twice. Those don't count.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 05:25 PM) Porcello 100% guaranteed yes. Youk, probably, but who cares? We're still in the wild card hunt as well, although that's an outside shot.

QUOTE (heimel @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 05:08 PM) Youk got owned pretty badly. Porcello do a nice throw when he got charged and basically body slammed Youk. So basically that's a guaranteed suspension for both of them?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 04:46 PM) Ramirez isn't going anywhere and we shouldn't be giving up on a very talented player who is in only his second season of any level of play above Cuban baseball. If you deal him, he ought to bring back a fortune. He's a guy who's a 2nd year player, who has a good 5 years before he's a FA, who can legitimately hit .300+ and hit 20 HR's a year from a middle infield position with very good speed. Defensive/mental woes aside, that's a monster of a player in terms of trade value. You want to deal him, you wait until someone offers you a top of the rotation starter.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 02:55 PM) Holy s***, imagine that scenario? I thought just getting Rios would be perfect, but Crawford would make it the most perfect offense we could believably get. He'd take over LF (so he wouldn't have to convert to CF), and he'd lead off. That offense would be incredible. Hopefully we've got a shot of developing our own version of a Crawford with one of our draft picks from the last 2 years.

QUOTE (kane0730 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) Yes, like 3rd. Still too early IMO. he's still getting that groove back.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 01:14 PM) Maybe the EPA will eventually come up with a "per unit energy" rating so that you can compare the efficiencies of different power generation platforms. I'm sure there's room for an environmental group to come up with a "CO2/mile" rating for cars, though it might be expensive to test and develop accurately. Unless its just derived from EPA fuel economy numbers. Problem with a CO2/Mile rating is it depends 100% on the method of generation of that electricity. Now, they're all much, much less CO2 intensive than running an internal combustion engine (yes, even coal), but there's a huge progression between coal>oil>natural Gas>renewables.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 12:55 PM) I don't buy it. Something goofy going on to come up with a number like that. Of course there is. You can put it anywhere between 60 miles and infinity, depending on how you balance the electric/gas part.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:50 AM) Um, North Dakota. Is anything there? Travis Hafner and Darin Erstad.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 11:47 AM) For our 5th starter I go Dan Hudson. He's cheap and has a lot of upside. Leadoff? Chris Getz. If there's only $15M left to spend, I don't go and spend $10M of it on Figgins when he have a full outfield (if we bring back Dye) and a full infield barring a trade. I think Thome has to come back. We need his LH bat. Use what we have leftover after re-signing Thome and get a solid reliever or two. Hudson may or may not be ready to start ST next year, but I think between him, Torres, and the other guys that keep coming up and surprising us, we'll be able to pull off at least 1 serviceable 5th starter by the middle of next year. Before then? Anyone's guess, but I'd bet we'll try something like we did this year; give a veteran (good shot its Garcia) a shot for a 1 year deal.